US Patent Issued to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF on March 24 for "Wheel bearing assembly and method for disassembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,253, issued on March 24, was assigned to AKTIEBOLAGET SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Wheel bearing assembly and method for disassembly" was invented by Volker Wendt (Uchtelhausen/Zell, Germany), Rico Dittmar (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Juergen Eyrich (Premich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel bearing assembly includes at least two rolling-element bearings which participate together in a bearing assembly. At least one of the rolling-element bearings includes at least one bearing ring, which, for transmitting a propulsion, is attached to a drive shaft. At least one brake element of the wheel bearing assembly is immovable rela...